Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2020
Date Published
December 2023
Publication Type
Publication
Forensic sciences
FY 2020 Ohio State Justice Statistics Program
2020-86-CX-K012
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2020
$74,117
Pennsylvania Criminal History System Improvement
2019-RU-BX-K016
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$6,589,444
Increase the VA SAC's Capacity to Analyze and Report NIBRS Data
2019-86-CX-K005
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$73,210
Law Enforcement Core Statistics (LECS) Continuation Program
2015-MU-MU-K037
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$199,983
Ohio Statistical Analysis Center
2016-BJ-CX-K018
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$50,917
NCHIP 2014
2014-RU-BX-K034
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$529,453
FY 2014 Virginia State Justice Statistics Program
2014-BJ-CX-K015
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$59,919
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2009
| ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 A.M. EDT | Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012 | Contact: Kara McCarthy (202) 307-1241 |
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NEARLY 1.2 MILLION FORENSIC REQUESTS TO PUBLICLY FUNDED CRIME LABS WERE BACKLOGGED AT YEAREND 2009, UNCHANGED FROM 2008
WASHINGTON – At the end of 2009, the nation’s publicly funded crime labs had an estimated backlog of 1.2 million requests...
2014 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories
2013-R2-CX-K055
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$397,421
West Virginia State Justice Statistics Program
2013-BJ-CX-K026
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$76,180
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2009
Date Published
August 2012
Publication Type
Publication
Agencies
BJS
Forensic DNA Analysis: Issues
Date Published
June 1991
Publication Type
Publication
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Law and Justice Statistics
Date Published
August 1985
Publication Type
Publication
2010 BJS Assessment of Administrative Data on Elder Abuse, Mistreatment, and Neglect
2010-MU-MU-K072
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2010
$299,874
2010 National Survey of Prosecutors
2010-BJ-CX-K074
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2010
$387,031
2009 Census of Publicly Funded Crime Laboratories
2009-BJ-CX-K039
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2009
$399,976
Crime laboratories
A scientific laboratory (with at least one full-time natural scientist) that examines physical evidence in criminal matters and provides reports and opinion testimony with respect to such physical evidence in courts of law.
CODIS
CODIS is an acronym for Combined DNA Index System, which is a computer software program that operates local, state, and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons.
DNA Forensics: Expanding Uses and Information Sharing
Date Published
April 2007
Publication Type
Publication
Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 1998
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000 202/307-0784
SIXTY-NINE PERCENT OF PUBLIC FORENSIC LABORATORIES
HAD DNA TEST BACKLOGS IN 1997
WASHINGTON, D.C. The first federal survey of publicly
operated forensic crime labs throughout the country has
revealed as of December 31, 1997, the labs had at least
6,800 unprocessed DNA cases and an additional 287,000
unprocessed convicted offender DNA samples...
Census of Medical Examiner and Coroner (ME/C) Offices
Provides data on the personnel, budgets, and workload of medical examiner and coroner offices by type of office and size of jurisdiction. The census gathers information on the number of unidentified human decedents handled by these offices, record-keeping practices, and use of national databases for unidentified remains.
National Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories
Provides national data on publicly operated forensic crime laboratories that perform DNA analyses. Data are collected on personnel, budgets, workloads, equipment, procedures, policies, and data processing. BJS first surveyed forensic crime laboratories in 1998, focusing solely on agencies that performed DNA analysis. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded the 1998 study as part of a DNA Laboratory Improvement Program.